In December, 2011, Kinyua was barred from campus after he punched holes in the walls of the ROTC cadet computer lab, The Baltimore Sun reported. He also broke a picture frame in the lab and stapled a poster over the wall to hide the damage.

Following the incident, a campus police report stated Kinyua was a "Virginia Tech waiting to happen," according to The Baltimore Sun.

The report went on to call Kinyua "an unusually angry person," the paper reported.

A month later, at a forum attended by senior university staff members, Kinyua stood up and talked about human sacrifice. But officials didn't ask what he meant by his comments, according to the Baltimore Sun.